We seized all of Saddam's massive stockpiles of nuclear weapons, caught Osama bin Laden hiding in Baghdad spooning with Saddam, U.S. troops were out in six weeks, and the war paid for itself. Just like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz promised.

When my wife and I got divorced, the kids ended up hating me and refusing to speak to me, I lost more money than I had, my lawyer screwed me over, and she got the house and the dog, but it went on the record in open court that she did, in fact, sleep with my business partner. She finally admitted it! I won! Also, I got the DVD collection.

make me some tea:James!: make me some tea: By that logic, we should also preemptively invade Syria, Egypt, Somalia, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea (this may happen), Venezuela, [insert rabble of African countries], and jam our freedom down their throats too!

If I told you that over a decade from now the governments we installed in those countries would thank us wouldn't it be totally worth the expense and loss of life?

Well, that's weird. That whole thing was George Bush's idea, wasn't it? And yet this guy is claiming it was the right thing to do? How can that be right?Isn't it odd how everybody stopped keeping a death toll of Americans killed overseas after January 20, 2009? But then, as the great lady once said: What difference does it make?

Here I thought it was the biggest mistake ever, by the most evil president ever. At least that's what I've been told again and again by our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters on the left.

Stopped reading here. Nothing of value can come after this. Though my eyes did drift down to where the guy who wound up in charge of Iraq is very glad he wound up in charge of Iraq. Good to have an unbiased cross-section of the Iraqi people tell us that.

On the other hand, I do appreciate that he acknowledges that I am his moral, ethical, and intellectual superior.

So a baseball goes through a guy's window. He ignores the group of boys running away and instead knocks on his neighbor's door. He's had a strained relationship with his neighbor for years, and despite a lack of evidence, he knows his neighbor is behind the broken window. He demands that his neighbor hand over his son and all the sports equipment on the premises. The neighbor claims that he has neither a son nor sports equipment. The man proceeds to beat the neighbor to death and trashes his house in the process. He spends so much time over the next few years scouring the remains for the alleged son and sports equipment that he loses his job and his wife leaves him. Eventually he gives up his search and returns home for good. Then a street gang turns the blighted property next door into a meth lab.

Problem: Your mismanagement of the country from 2000 to 2008--exemplified in the public memory by your hubristic, fraudulent, and unbelievably costly invasion and occupation of Iraq--shattered public trust in your party and handed your opposition a simple and effective way to discredit your policies a full decade later.

themindiswatching:20 years from now they'll admit that Iraq was a mistake, but we "would have won if we stayed in longer".

/much like what they say about Vietnam from time to time.

You give them far too much credit. 20 years from now, the Republicans will insist that Iraq was all Clinton's idea from the very beginning, and the failure of Iraq falls squarely on the shoulders of the Democrats and Barak "Shaq and Mohammed" Fartbongo.

James!:make me some tea: By that logic, we should also preemptively invade Syria, Egypt, Somalia, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea (this may happen), Venezuela, [insert rabble of African countries], and jam our freedom down their throats too!

If I told you that over a decade from now the governments we installed in those countries would thank us wouldn't it be totally worth the expense and loss of life?

make me some tea:By that logic, we should also preemptively invade Syria, Egypt, Somalia, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea (this may happen), Venezuela, [insert rabble of African countries], and jam our freedom down their throats too!

If I told you that over a decade from now the governments we installed in those countries would thank us wouldn't it be totally worth the expense and loss of life?